Applegate Press Briefings

The Interconnectivity of All Things

Suddenly, the world seems to be waking up to the economic
impact of reduced population growth.Last week, for example, headlines included:

Iowa’s Labor Plight:Too Many Jobs

Across the Midwest, the ‘skills gap’
is less of a problem than the shortage of workers

And,

Demographic Tsunami Menaces World’s
Developing Economies

More retirees, fewer young workers
mean little money for growth

Say what?You thought
the world was over-populated?Well, turns
out we are facing serious problems due to stagnating and decreasing populations
instead.

In Iowa and other states, the problem turns out to not be
what the politicians always want to talk about, training.

Rather, the true problem is that there just aren’t enough
young people to train.

Shrinking school enrollment has led to the closing of many
schools.

One dean of a Midwestern Community College recently said,
“It’s not like we have the people beating down our door to apply.”

And, in other developing countries, pension programs are in
disarray for retirees as the population ages and there just aren’t enough
younger workers to support them.

In Brazil some retirees have gone as long as four months
without their pension checks and “swelling retirement obligations have nearly
bankrupted the Rio de Janeiro state government”, according to the Wall Street
Journal.

The shortage of workers in the U.S. has grown so acute that some
employers are desperate for workers.

““Most of our end-customers are newborns and children,” the
company explained in a recent financial filing, and “as a result, our revenues
are dependent on the birth rates in countries where we operate.”

In other words. No babies, no toys. No toys, no Toys “R” Us.”

(The ironic aspect is that the company supported Planned
Parenthood and its systematic decimation of Toys R Us customer base.)

So, hey!What’s the
big deal?Stop having so many kids, save
Mother Earth and torpedo the economy…

Could there be other implications as well?

For example, fewer citizen children = we need more
foreigners who don’t think like we do to do the work.Follow that thought to its logical
conclusion…

America has allowed and encouraged its mothers to kill tens
of millions of their own children in the last half of century.

If a mother is allowed to kill her own baby how can we fault
others who kill those who they are unrelated to?

Who will write the novel of an unimaginable alien creature
that seduces a species to mass homicide and suicidal extinction?

When we sanctioned abortion, we said that it was acceptable
to use violence – murder in order to solve our problems.

Then we wonder why there could be school shootings and other
formerly unthought-of violent acts.

And, now, finally, it appears that we will start to face the
economic impact of our bloody choice.

But, don’t expect too many to connect the dots
on how all things are interconnected.